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Hillshire Brands (owner of brands like Jimmy Dean, Ball Park, and Sara Lee) announced the acquisition of Pinnacle Foods (owner of Duncan Hines, Birds Eye, Armour, and Vlasic, among others) today, to the tune of $6.6 billion.

Taco Bell introduced a new line of breakfast foods. McDonalds is contemplating stretching breakfast to longer hours. Now Burger King is getting in to the Fast Food Breakfast Wars by taking an opposite approach – moving dinner foods into breakfast time.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx says it isn't a problem if the owners of 2.6-million recalled General Motors cars keep driving them, despite a request from two Senators to order the cars off the roads.

Target announced today that its CEO, president and chairman Gregg Steinhafel, who has worked at the company for 35 years, has agreed to step down following the retailer's massive, brand-decimating data breach.

Did you ever hear the story about a guy explaining the bright side of oil spills? You did not hear that story, because anyone who does that is a terrible person, and hopefully the human race collectively knows better, right? Wrong.

Bob Hoskins leaves behind a titanic legacy in British film and television and a multitude of memorable characters, both silly and serious, that long had me arguing that he was one of the more unappreciated talents of his generation.

Bank of America has $4 billion less than its accountants thought it did. This small accounting error, which executives disclosed on Monday, went unnoticed by BofA's accountants and the bank's outside accounting firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers, for years.

Wendy's may have topped the weirdest fast food promotion charts with its four-part sartorial contest, which offers customers the chance to win $1,000 for compiling an online wardrobe inspired by their signature salads.

Hadley Freeman on the Chelsea Clinton pregnancy conspiracies, Dana Milbank on NASA's budget problem, James Copnall on South Sudan's most recent massacre, Reihan Salam on why it's racist to date only people of your own race, Doyle McManus on one year after the Bangladesh garment factory disaster.

The New York Times' new data journalism site The Upshot launched on Tuesday, making it the third big new media site to focus on explaining the news with lots of numbers, following Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight and Ezra Klein's Vox.